Quotes About Contradiction

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

Love, is always insufficient, always a lie. Love, you are the clean shit of my soul. Stupid love, silly love.

Life, she thought. Always a clash of opposites. Was there ever any real end to that great conflict?

Reductio ad absurdum, or reduction to absurdity, is a form of argument that proves a statement by demonstrating that its opposite is absurd.

Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.

It was dirty and grown-up and transgressive and thrilling in its perverse little way, all the things I couldn't help being attracted to, being as I'm nothing myself if not perverse.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

They never get ahead an inch, because they are always hugging some coward maxim, which they can only interpret literally.... Of what use is it "to be sawing about a set of maxims to which there is a complete set of antagonist maxims"? Proverbs, it has been well said, should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half-truth.

Es gibt keine gute Nachricht. Nur weil es eine schlechte Nachricht gibt, muss es nicht zwangsläufig gute Nachrichten geben.

All Cretans are liars, as a Cretan poet once told me.

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up..

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

black slavery was basic and integral to the entire phenomenon we call "America." This often hidden or disguised truth ultimately involves the profound contradiction of a free society that was made possible by black slave labor.

Since theories can contradict each other, but there are no contradictions in reality, every problem signals that our knowledge must be flawed or inadequate.

The criterion and the existing explanation are conflicting ideas. I shall call a situation in which we experience conflicting ideas a problem.

Isn't a gay Mormon like an oxymoron?' 'Do I look like an oxymoron to you?' 'An oxymormon.

J'éprouvais alternativement la nécessité de ressentir l'intensité de la vie, et un sentiment profond de vacuité. Alors, tout me paraissait dérisoire et absurde.

Therein lies the magic of our paradoxes: the situation was so uncomfortable that he pulled through with elegance.

Make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us.

I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral.

It's as if the endless labour of achieving consensus maska a constant inner violence - or, it might perhaps be better to say, is in fact the process by which that inner violence is measured and contained - and it is precisely this, and the resulting tangle of moral contradiction, which is the primal fornt of social creativity.

It all makes perfect sense if you start from Nietzsche's initial premise. The problem is that the premise is insane.

Non smetto di stupirmi per come quest'arida vita abbia improvvisamente deciso di mostrarmi il suo seno prosperoso.